LEADER 03925cpd a2200517 a 4500001 4287094 005 20180604132620.0 008 980731s1991 ctu eng d 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV00-A239 035 4287094 035 HVT-2264 035 |9FLW1221YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005122217 090 |bHVT-2264 100 1 W., John, |d1910?- 245 10 John W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2264) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Samuel Kenner, |fApril 12, 1991. 260 Peabody, Mass. : |bHolocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, |c1991. 300 1 videorecording (58 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of John W., a Dutch Seventh-Day Adventist, who was born in approximately 1910. He recalls being taught great respect for Jews by his father, a minister; living in Paris in 1940; German invasion; moving to Lyon; joining Amities chrétiennes, an underground organization to save Jews; organizing a network to assist Jews to escape to Switzerland; his arrest in 1942; torture and interrogation in front of Klaus Barbie; release for lack of proof; involving his friends and family in the network; his father's arrest in Holland for speaking against the Nazis; smuggling American pilots to Spain; arrest of a network member who exposed many of them (his own sister was arrested and died in a camp in Poland); being informed in Geneva that he should travel to England; arrest in Toulouse; being sentenced to death; escape; and being smuggled to England. Mr. W. discusses the importance of his religious beliefs to his work saving Jews and recognition by Yad Vashem. 540 This testimony cannot be used for commercial purposes. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 John W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2264). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 W., John, |d1910?- 600 10 Barbie, Klaus, |d1913-1991. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83039839 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Dutch. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113966 650 0 Seventh-Day Adventists. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120430 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zFrance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010002506 650 0 Faith. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046928 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, French. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113943 650 0 Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86000307 651 0 Netherlands. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78085423 651 0 Paris (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79058874 651 0 Lyon (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81086849 651 0 Geneva (Switzerland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018331 651 0 Toulouse (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091182 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 693 24 Amities chrétiennes. 700 1 Kenner, Samuel, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4666173 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.2264) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/fx73t9dc95 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/